Gentlemen

My Last was 15 April  Since I have your favors 30 March & 11 April. I was in hopes to have been able to have rendered your Sales & Acct Current of the Wheat, but the quantities on hand have prevented the people taking away, so that the Warehouses are not yet cleared, which is the occassion of my not being able to settle the Account ー They promise me it will be cleared away soon.

Wheat, owing to the Quantity imported, the very dry weather which has stopped most of the Mills, and the very promising appearance of the new wheat, has declined to 6/6. The Importations into the Kingdom have been immense, & without them Wheat would have been very high. How to advise you in future I know not. If the Weather continues favorable Wheat will not be dearer, & I fear will fall, but if there should be wet sufficient to endanger the Harvest, it must keep up & rise; at present the quantities are large in the Kingdom for sale, but then they must go off gradually, as there is very little English Com. Super fine flour 17/6 common 15/6 & 16/  Indien Corn 3/3. The latter Article will I think encrease in demand, but the Summer not so much so; The Duty being taken off is greatly in its favour. Mr [Edmund] Burke our Representative daily rises in the Esteem of the true friends to his Country. His last Speech, which I do not send you, as it is gone out from London, as soon as published, & I was from home when it came out, shews him to be a true friend to the Constitution of the whole Empire, & a perfect Master of its Interests.

I have heard nothing about the Champion, & therefore am uncertain whether she will come to you, if she does you will in course follow my orders, but in the present State of the market, I should not think it prudent to make any Concern now, as the Harvest is So very promising, nor can I recommend any to be sent here after the receipt of this Letter, You shall however be further advised. The late Disturbances at Boston have various Effects here some believe, others disbelieve the Story, I think it for my part too clear an Account to admit of the least doubt. What the Ministry will now do it is impossible to say. give way at last they must.

I am with great Truth Gentlemen [&c.]